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Who serves Hardin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alliant Energy and Midland Power Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Hardin County, IA
Last significant outage: Aug 20, 2026 — peaked at 293 customers, restored in ~1.2 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 20, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hardin County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
96 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Iowa norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2 hr.
Largest on record: ~3,769 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 4 days. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Hardin County include Iowa Falls, Eldora, Ackley, Hubbard, Alden, Radcliffe, Union and Steamboat Rock. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Hardin County, IA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hardin include Alliant Energy and Midland Power Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
